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But they are just a bunch of losers that never amounted to much and have nothing to offer for the future of the planet. If they didn't have nukes they would have been wiped of the face of the earth a long time ago.
Wtf
No current German politician could rally people behind themselves by striving to rebuild the 3rd Reich.
Isn't that kind of happening? On the fringes perhaps but it's there, just like those in the UK (ok, England) who hark back to the glorious days of Empire.
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Isn't that kind of happening? On the fringes perhaps but it's there
On the fringes of the fringes, of course. There will always be some sad individuals harking back to imaginary past glories. But I see no evidence of any desire among the German people to see a return to the Third Reich except amongst a very small number of extremists. Whereas Putin's desire to see Russia return to a Cold War Stalinist way of life appears to have substantial but not universal support.
Brommers
It's not blaming nato for anything.
This is exactly what happened, it's not just Putin, it's the whole Russian bullshit of seeing themselves as victims. They see themselves as a former superpower that was cheated out of their colonies and what they see as rightfully theirs. But they are just a bunch of losers that never amounted to much and have nothing to offer for the future of the planet. If they didn't have nukes they would have been wiped of the face of the earth a long time ago.
That's why this whole unification of the russian public behind Putin with propaganda works, they can still refer to a great Russia without people breaking out laughing. No current German politician could rally people behind themselves by striving to rebuild the 3rd Reich. Russia is still poisoned by the Soviet past, just because they were allowed to be consumers of western goods for a few decades does not turn them into a modern society.